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Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong. (Blaise Pascal)
The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion. View quote
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True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature as the true good being lost, everything becomes its own true good. View quote
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All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. View quote
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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus. View quote
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Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell. View quote
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There are only three types of people those who have found God and serve him those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy. View quote
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart. View quote
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society. View quote
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing. View quote
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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ then we shall find a peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace. (Blaise Pascal)
If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God. View quote
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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it. View quote
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits. View quote
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair. View quote
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The property of power is to protect. View quote
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Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just. View quote
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All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to discover to you. View quote
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We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them. View quote
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We like to be deceived. View quote
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For after all what is man in nature A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed. (Blaise Pascal)
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired even I who write this, and you who read this. View quote
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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us. View quote
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Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere. View quote
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Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it. View quote
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